Tulare County Biographies

ROBERT NULL

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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The first day of July, 1835, Robert Null was born in Jefferson county, Mo. He 
received a limited common school education and when he was nineteen years old, 
which was in 1854, he crossed the plains to California with neighbors named 
McVay and Nelson. Their party had but three wagons, but there were larger 
parties before and behind them and four hundred head of cattle were driven on 
ahead. They came by way of the North Platte, the Sublett cutoff and the sink of 
the Humboldt, crossing the mountains east of the American valley, and eighty 
head of their cattle fell victims to alkali. Indians menaced but never really 
molested them. Six months after their departure from Missouri they arrived at 
Marysville, Cal., and began mining on Nelson's creek, where Mr. Null operated 
eight years. Then he fell ill of mountain fever and went south to recuperate. He 
worked a year on a ranch, then returned to mining, operating at Diamond mine and 
at Gold Hill for a year with good success. Then, following false lures, he and 
others tried to find mythical mines in one place and another until he became 
discouraged and went to Oregon, where he lived until 1884. Then he took sixty 
head of horses to Kansas. He bought them at $10 a head and sold them there at 
$50 to $60 a head, making considerable money. He returned to California in 
December, 1892. He bought eighty acres of land a mile and a half north of 
Traver, where he now lives, and has since made further purchases. He has twenty 
acres in alfalfa and is conducting a dairy, having a goodly number of cows and 
twelve head of young heifers, his cows yielding him a profit of $75 each per 
annum. Four horses are required on his ranch and he has a flock of about one 
hundred turkeys.
Politically, Mr. Null is a Socialist. In his religious affiliation he is a 
Methodist. He married Miss Mary Jane Warmoth, a native of Grundy county, Mo., 
and a daughter of John and Mary Jane (Collins) Warmoth. Mr. Warmoth crossed the 
plains with his family in 1861. Following are the names of ten children born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Null: John D., Robert Lee, Mary Ellen, Nancy J., Louisa, T. Oscar. 
Richard, Alvin B., Cynthia and Anna B. John D. married Bertha Tarr, and they 
live in Tulare county. Robert Lee married Mrs. Anna Banty. Mary Ellen, now Mrs. 
Lee, has four children, Lilly M., Mary Z., James W., and Ruby E. Nancy J. 
married Allen Anderson, has borne him five children, Robert L., Alfred, Mary E., 
Vernon and Leland, and they live near Orosi. Louisa married William Crawford and 
they have children named Robert R., Aaron, Winnie M. and Mary E. T. Oscar 
married Lily Mullis; they have a daughter named Mary F. and live near Orosi. 
Cynthia married A. R. Thompson and resides at Hanford; they have two children, 
Harold and Helen. Richard and Alvin are unmarried. Anna B. became the wife of 
Edward Hayes and has borne him a son, Robert Earnest, and is living in Tulare 
county.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 749-750